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The invention of the transistor in 1947 by William B. Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain opened the door for more compact devices and led to the development of the integrated circuit in 1958 by Jack Kilby and independently in 1959 by Robert Noyce.
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In 1971, Bardeen received the IEEE Medal of Honor for " his profound contributions to the understanding of the conductivity of solids, to the invention of the transistor, and to the microscopic theory of superconductivity.
* 1951 – William Shockley announces the invention of the junction transistor.
File: Bardeen. jpg | John Bardeen ( 1908 – 1991 ): awarded Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956 with William Shockley and Walter Brattain for the invention of the transistor and again in 1972 with Leon Cooper and John Robert Schrieffer for a fundamental theory of conventional superconductivity known as the BCS theory.
The study of semiconductors led to the invention of the diode and the transistor, which are indispensable parts of modern electronics systems and devices.
The invention of the first transistor at Bell Labs was named an IEEE Milestone in 2009.
* July 5 – William Shockley, John Bardeen, and Walter Brattain announce the invention of the junction transistor.
Bell Telephone Laboratories needed a generic name for their new invention: " Semiconductor Triode ", " Solid Triode ", " Surface States Triode ", " Crystal Triode " and " Iotatron " were all considered, but " transistor ", coined by John R. Pierce, won an internal ballot.
Since the invention of the “ solid state ” transistor in the 1950s and the TTL ( transistor-transistor logic ) that led to the development of the IC ( integrated circuit ) in the 1960s the growth in the field of electronics has been phenomenal.
Alongside, the invention of the handheld transistor radio in the 1950s lead to users simply just propping it on the dashboards and baskets in bicycles and automobiles respectively with no direct permanent mounting brackets whatsoever as casual users only wanted their audio equipment simple.
The invention of the transistor made possible cheaper electronic remotes that contained a piezoelectric crystal that was fed by an oscillating electric current at a frequency near or above the upper threshold of human hearing, though still audible to dogs.
** Darlington transistor, his invention
With the invention and development of the transistor in the 1950s and 1960s, metal detector manufacturers and designers made smaller lighter machines with improved circuitry, running on small battery packs.
Practical portable electric megaphones had to await the development of microelectronics which followed the invention of the transistor in 1947.
Then until the invention of transistor, the vacuum tube was essential component in electric instruments.
Until the invention of the transistor in 1947, most practical high-frequency electronic amplifiers were made using thermionic valves.
Following in the wake of the use of miniaturized electric batteries as a source of energy for wristwatches from the late 1940s onwards and the invention of the transistor in 1947, purely mechanical watch technology developed into a hybrid discipline of precision mechanics and electronics.
Bell Labs water tower was designed to resemble a transistor, an important invention.
The term was first used by the Vice President of Bell Labs in 1957 in a paper celebrating the 10th anniversary of the invention of the transistor.
Then in 1948 the invention of the bipolar junction transistor by Shockley all at once reduced the cost and size while increasing the efficiency of transistors beginning a revolution in semiconductor electronics.
Others say that quip was " commonly heard at the Bell Laboratories prior to the invention of the transistor.
Whether it involved the history of the number zero or the invention of the transistor, two things stood out to me.
Ohl was a notable semiconductor researcher prior to the invention of the transistor.
Artie Moore went on to work as a senior scientist for Marconi and was involved with the invention of the transistor for telecommunications.
The invention of the pocket transistor radio placed the company at the forefront of electronics development, both in Japan and worldwide.
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The history of video games goes as far back as the 1940s, when in 1947 Thomas T. Goldsmith, Jr. and Estle Ray Mann filed a United States patent request for an invention they described as a " cathode ray tube amusement device.
On January 25, 1947, Thomas T. Goldsmith, Jr. and Estle Ray Mann filed a United States patent request for an invention they described as a " cathode ray tube amusement device ".
With the invention of transistors at Bell labs, in 1947, the field of electronics got a new direction which shifted from power consuming vacuum tubes to solid state devices.
Predating the printed circuit invention, and similar in spirit, was John Sargrove's 1936 – 1947 Electronic Circuit Making Equipment ( ECME ) which sprayed metal onto a Bakelite plastic board.
* " Electronic Relay Circuit " ( The patent notes " My invention relates to electric circuits employing relays ...") filed May 28, 1947, issued January 31, 1961.
The invention of the Tower and Stockade system by which 52 settlements from 1938 to 1947 largely decided the borders of Israel in the UN 29 November 1947 decision, is attributed to kibbutz member Shlomo Gur.
Hubbardston is home to the invention of the first backhoe swing frame developed in July 1947 by Vaino J. Holopainen ( pronounced “ Waino ”) and Roy E. Handy, Jr., ( thus the company name “ Wain-Roy ”) and assigned to Wain-Roy Corporation of Hubbardston, MA.
An American invention that was barely noticed in 1947 went on to usher in the Information Age.
Founded in 1947 by engineer Gerhard Mueller, who is credited with the invention of the modern detachable chairlift in the late 1940s, it was one of the most prolific and respected aerial lift manufacturers in skiing history.
His 1947 invention of the halogen counter occurred while he was working on his thesis.
In 1947, Hussenot founded the Société Française des Instruments de Mesure with Beaudouin and another associate, so as to market his invention, which was also known as the " hussenograph "; the SFIM went on becoming a successful equipment company and a major flight recorder supplier, and is today part of the Safran group.
Asplund was rewarded the Gold medal ( Guldmedaljen ) of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences ( IVA ) in 1947 for the invention and his further development of the defibrator-method for pulping wood and other fibre rich materials.
Jolivet is also one of the few composers to write for the Ondes Martenot, an early electronic instrument, completing a concerto for it in 1947, 19 years after the instrument's invention.
The Merrow machine as it is now known, was an invention of Mr. Joseph M. Merrow, who was president of the company until his death in 1947 at age 98.
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The basic significance of this invention helped them to follow it rapidly in 1855 by the development of a unique precision gear cutting and dividing engine.
During the Civil War period Mr. Brown also invented the Brown & Sharpe formed tooth gear cutter, a basic invention which ultimately revolutionized the world's gear manufacturing industry by changing its basic economics.
Mr. Brown's invention achieved this and, as a byproduct, formed the cornerstone of Brown & Sharpe's position of leadership in the gear making equipment field which lasted until the 1920's when superceded by other methods.
Thus, 1745 corresponded to the invention of the `` Leiden '' jar by Kleist, 1764 that of the electrophorus by Wilcke, 1782 produced the condenser of Volta, and 1801 the voltaic pile.
She did not go so far as to say, as was done on other occasions, that Abstraction as well as Impressionism were a Russian invention that had been discarded as unwanted by the people of the U.S.S.R.
The concept and theory of Kolmogorov Complexity is based on a crucial theorem first discovered by Ray Solomonoff, who published it in 1960, describing it in " A Preliminary Report on a General Theory of Inductive Inference " as part of his invention of algorithmic probability.
Misogyny was by no means an Athenian invention, but it has been claimed that in regard to gender democracy generalised a harsher set of values derived, again, from the common people.
The European acceptance of the numerals was accelerated by the invention of the printing press, and they became widely known during the 15th century.
His promotion of it was so extensive that he is often credited with its invention, even though a machine operating in the same principle was described in 1762 by Swedish professor Johan Wilcke.
Parkinson challenges the argument from moral objectivity by arguing that, for the argument to be successful, it must be shown that morality is objective and commanded by God, rather than just a human invention.
The innovative aspect of the invention of the bow and arrow was the amount of power delivered to an extremely small area by the arrow.
Thus it was the Aeginetans who, within 30 or 40 years of the invention of coinage in Asia Minor by the Ionian Greeks or the Lydians ( c. 630 BC ), introduced coinage to the Western world.
This was achieved with the invention of the dimensionless Reynolds number by Osborne Reynolds.
It is unclear whether the word dates back to the 5th century and was used by the kings themselves, or whether it is a later, 9th-century, invention.
In parallel to the development of the bus was the invention of the electric trolleybus, typically fed through trolley poles by overhead wires, which actually preceded, and in many urban areas outnumbered, the conventional engine powered bus.
Another invention in the late Middle Ages was the use of Greek fire by the Byzantines, which was used to set enemy fleets on fire.
Developed by the Romans from wooden writing tablets, its gradual replacement of the scroll, the dominant form of book in the ancient world, has been termed the most important advance in the history of the book prior to the invention of printing.
Cavalry tactics in China were enhanced by the invention of the saddle-attached stirrup by at least the 4th century, as the oldest reliable depiction of a rider with paired stirrups was found in a Jin Dynasty tomb of the year 322 AD.
The Chinese invention of the horse collar by the 5th century was also a great improvement from the breast harness, allowing the horse to haul greater weight without heavy burden on its skeletal structure.
After the 1690 invention of the vacuum pump by Otto von Guericke, physicists began to experiment with passing high voltage electricity through rarefied air.
The technology of manipulating electron beams pioneered in these early tubes was applied practically in the design of vacuum tubes, particularly in the invention of the cathode ray tube by Ferdinand Braun in 1897. and is today employed in sophisticated devices such as electron microscopes, electron beam lithography, and particle accelerators.
1st century BC ), described the invention of a mechanical arrow firing catapult ( katapeltikon ) by a Greek task force in 399 BC.
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